What's the difference between irksome and mirksome?
Irksome
Definition:
(a.) Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks.
(a.) Weary; vexed; uneasy.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Well, it is slightly irksome when people try to compare the two.
(2) Peter Barlow's son, Our Simon, is particularly irksome, and Faye, who has been used to address the issue of bullying, has it coming.
(3) In Manhattan, she is cast as a pretentious, irksome snob of a journalist.
(4) After a prolonged chuckle, Russell drops his impersonation of Groundhog Day's irksome insurance salesman, a minor but intensely memorable character, and explains excitedly that he recently met Andie MacDowell, one of the film's stars.
(5) As the Press Association reports, he told a committee that said sticking to international rules could be "irksome" at times.
(6) Then, in 2010, he was cast in Friday Night Dinner, getting the part of irksome estate agent Jonny, he thinks, because "I was the most annoying person they could find."
(7) The suggestion that Bastille's fans somehow aren't proper music fans is, understandably, particularly irksome.
(8) The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words "Never Forget" become irksome eventually.
(9) The pathophysiology of this frequent and irksome complication is still poorly understood.
(10) They owe me a medal for trying to save the Russian environment," he said, "The amnesty is just a way for the authorities to save face but we are still described as violent criminals that the Duma, in its magnanimity, is willing to pardon, which is really irksome."
(11) In a letter to the prime minister, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said that tighter controls on British newspapers would send the wrong message to repressive regimes that want to "rein in irksome reporters".
(12) It may also say something about modern debate that the most teeth-grinding aspect of Osborne's move barely attracted comment – but the spectacle of an alumnus of St Paul's School worth an estimated £4m kicking the poor in order to preserve his political skin is irksome, to say the least.
(13) It’s not like Thailand today.” Harking back to an idealised past, when irksome democracy was containable and everyone knew their place, is one of the festival’s aims.
(14) When the increasingly irksome backbench rebel Barry Sheerman put in a good 10 minutes on the BBC News Channel, did he not realise the absurdity of his failure to mention a single substantial item of policy?
(15) For Campbell, the justification of the cost is almost as irksome as the outlay itself.
(16) Assessment of completeness of vagotomy has always been an irksome and time-consuming affair.
(17) There is a spread sheet that will tell you what everyone should be doing for every hour over Christmas, from who is doing the driving, through seating plans, to thank-you letters (you have to write down who the last present was from before you are allowed to open the next one – very irksome for The Twins).
(18) This shunts the cost from one government department to another, with the irksome side-effect that the cost is much greater.
(19) Our cause was noble, he submits: we were fighting for European freedom against irksomely expansionist Teutonic tyranny.
(20) Almost as irksome has been a £440,000 cash allowance – separate from Bailey's £1.1m salary and potential £2.2m bonus – plus an additional one-off performance related award of £7.6m worth of shares when he took over as chief executive in May.